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Seriously? What did they think was going to happen with donvict in office? I just can't even right now. If I thought things would be any better in 4 years, I'd beg/borrow/steal to get on that 4 year cruise...
Stop blaming minorities that their families being killed by you make them reluctant to vote for you is my message to the blue MAGA ghouls in the comments.
I get that voting for a party that is funding Israel is hard for Muslims but seriously, voting for Trump expecting that support for Israel would be dialed down is just fucking stupid beyond belief. He stated his views about Palestine, FFS, you don't have to guess
True Trump is also terrible about the ongoing genocide. But for one the only possible place where the Muslim vote may have influenced the election is Michigan and even then most like most people didn't vote at all and those who did where something like 40 percent to trump 37 to Harris and 15 to Stein, I just hate some democrat loyalists are blaming either Arabs, Latino's or black men for going slightly more towards trump than usual and ignoring how the democrats threw all the issues they care about under the bus to appeal to the mythical hoards of "never trump republicans" and also that Trump main base is still white males. It just makes me uncomfortable when i see for example white men blame black male misogyny for a slight trump shift over previous elections when close to 80% of black males still voted Harris in direct contradiction to white men.
Yep the leopards are getting morbidly obese right now.
Woah hey, it's too soon to know which specific minority to blame yet!
Thoughts and prayers for the members of the Abandon Harris campaign and Muslims for Trump.
Facts:
- POTUS45 knew it was a one-time grift so there are no repercussions for him for abandoning his electorate.
- POTUS45 repeatedly stated his desire to help Israel and not even once hinted at idea of peace for Gaza.
- Haris clearly was trying to evade direct answers to Gaza questions which left significant room for after-election change
- Democrats suck (at messaging, at fighting back and at playing hard ball)
- Putting up ultimatums in the middle of election is doomed to failure. I can't recall one instance where it was successful. I can recall however when existing administration, outside of election cycle, yielded to public pressure...
so with just more obvious facts on the table the entire notion of giving Dems middle finger and literally helping Republicans win was not merely misguided but malicious. Being surprised by the outcome does not speak highly of people involved and their priority. If their priority was stopping the bloodshed they would've acted differently, by all means that priority was mainly middle finger to Dems.
I am acutely aware that people are dying and between two administrations the difference is at what scale and whether public has any sway with administration. Present choice out of the gate pointed for larger scale suffering and no public input.
US elections are not pragmatic - they are spectacle of emotions, which is why public elects showman.
This is just islamophobic. Why not ask white people who overwhelmingly voted for Trump?
This doesn't make any sense in the context of the article. And we're all deeply disappointed in the white people too.
Why not Latinos, who had a major shift in voting from 2020? This is at least the 7th article I’ve seen today, across multiple news sites, pushing the narrative that Muslims “made a mistake,” or “regret their vote.” A couple only had one individual quote. That is not indicative of a widespread belief. From the interviews I’ve seen, from the Uncommitted delegates and Muslim American leaders in Dearborn, their votes (or lack of) were intentional and deliberated.
Not to say that there aren’t many Muslims that don’t have this opinion; they aren’t a monolith. But, to generalize an entire community this way is negligent journalism.
No way. The guy who said he'd give Netanyahu a blank check to destroy Gaza opposes Islam? Color me fucking shocked.
“Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what the hell is going on.”
All this time/effort organizing around him when a 5 minute Google search would have shown you he'd pledge unquestioning support for Netanyahu
This is what I don't get.
Trump is like everyone's marvel superhero, he's whatever they imagine they want, the alternative to everyone else... Even very legitimate and thought out criticism can somehow conclude with supporting Trump when that makes no sense.
Not to mention Trump's "sharpie realignment" of Israel's border during his last term. These people have rocks in their heads if they thought this was going to go any other way.
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